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In this TV documentary she said how (in 1974) she was in class at school when an IRA bomb was planted at a News Agency about 100yds away. Somehow the school was not evacuated and the Bomb Squad were called. However the bomb detonated (killing the officer trying to diffuse it) and the blast hit the school, and only then was she told to crouch down and later led to safety. So a lucky escape - https://www.channel5.com/show/the-blackouts-of-74-when-britain-went-dark
I've changed this back from Toyah! Toyah! Toyah! All The Hits to Toyah! Toyah! Toyah! as the latter is what's written on the spine of my copy; from the layout of the front cover, I'm not convinced that "All The Hits" is part of the title. However, toyahwillcox.com lists the title as including the tag line and I've lost the copy of Guinness British Hit Albums that I was going to check with.
If anyone is confident that I've got this wrong then please change it back, but also change the "also known as" bit in the references section so that it makes sense!
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I've just looked at this page for the first time. Since when was Toyah a band? Toyah is a solo artist and was since her first hit single back in 1981. All her single and album covers featured just her, all the photo sessions featured just her, every magazine referred to Toyah as 'her'. I don't know enough about her career before that - but certainly the chart and reference books describe Toyah as a female singer (not a band), she won the BRIT award as a solo female artist (otherwise the award would have been for 'band'). Even her own official website doesn't refer to Toyah's music career as a band.
She may well have had a regular backing band, but then many solo artists do. To say that "Minx" is Toyah's first album as a solo artist is ridiculous. Is this one person's attempt to rewrite history? The fact that this page has been going for over 2 years astounds me (before that - the whole career was under Toyah as an individual). And why am I the only one to notice this after all this time?
What does anyone else think?-- Tuzapicabit ( talk) 02:36, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Well, in her book "Living Out Loud", Toyah herself regularly refers to "the Band", although I havent seen anywhere where she is more specific than that. I think there has always been general recognition amongst fans that Toyah was a band and Toyah Willcox a person, but the media have often blurred this. Again, in "LIving Out Loud", Toyah states that the British Rock and Pop award she received in 1982 was for "Best female singer". Gloveman ( talk) 03:39, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Can info taken from her MySpace page be used? As it is her own page, the info is from her. It contains relevant biographical info that is not present on this article, including the fact that she does not have children, nor does she want any, and that she is a Catholic. Nietzsche 2 ( talk) 03:24, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
These sources do not ever belong in External links. I have moved the link farm from there to this talk page where they do belong. Warning: I didn't check them over, so be careful in choosing any references here. Thank you! -- Leahtwosaints ( talk) 06:44, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
There are far too many quotations and statements of trivia in this article. Clearly the work of one or more fans, it needs a decent pruning. - Sitush ( talk) 11:52, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
I agree, 4 years later. It has to be rated as one of the most difficult (and thus boring) biographies in Wikipedia. That’s a shame because Toyah’s life and career have not been boring. The amount of irrelevent minutia is mind-numbing and needs clearing out and reorganising into a cogent and readable article. Richard Avery ( talk) 15:15, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
I cleaned the article up as best I could, removing the many quotes and preserving as much fact as possible, focusing on career inflection points and removing POV language and opinion to leave at least a workable bio that other editors might like to enhance, add to, further ce and generally be able to face working on. BEst Alexandermcnabb ( talk) 07:24, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
Some mention should be given of Toyah's character Mad's song "Nine To Five" in the Music and Discography sections. It's about the earliest footage of Toyah performing music (AFAIK). It was co-written with Adam Ant and recorded with Ant and Dave Barbe, although on screen Toyah was backed by an all female band including Ant's estranged wife Carol "Eve" Mills and his subesequent girlfriend Stephanie Gluck (later Coleman) who choreographed the Prince Charming dance, appeared in both that video and Stand and Deliver and co-directed several videos in 1979-1980 (Zerox, Catrouble pt2, Tabletalk and Kings Of The Wild Frontier.)
Nine To Five was included on the Jubilee OST and was released as a single in 1981 - initially credited as an Ant/Toyah duet until legal action by Ant forced the single to be credited to Maneaters as per the 1978 OST album. The filming of Jubilee led to a falling out between Ant and Toyah particularly after Gluck, Mills and the drummer all abandoned Toyah to form a new band led by Gluck and mentored by Ant. Toyah and Ant were still not on speaking terms when both on Top Of The Pops together in 1981. 62.190.148.115 ( talk) 13:29, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
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There is reference to this name in the article, in the section about Toyah's move to London. Although the interview cited does give the name as Milligan, I can't help thinking this has been mis-transcribed and it should be Kate Nelligan, who was the lead actress in 'Tales from Vienna Woods', the Maximilian Schell stage production at the National mentioned in that part of the text, which Toyah had a minor role in. Being able to still remember seeing them in this very successful production, I would like to get this correct. Is anyone aware of an alternative source which could clear this up? Sbishop ( talk) 13:01, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
I was looking for info about the Sunday Lunch videos Toyah did with her husband Robert Fripp during the Corona lockdowns. I propose to add some info because I think these videos are encyclopedically relevant, because
* The videos were published on Youtube [1] and garnered quite some publicity, I even think they introduced Toyah and Robert to a new, maybe younger audience * The videos were fun and (while all of them covers) original * They received between 100K and 2M views per video
I have 2 questions:
1 If you think it is not relevant (or just some trivia), let me know and I won't add it 2 This applies to both Toyah and Robert. I could add the info to both of them (but that's a duplication), add it to one of them and link to the other or create a separate page that both link to.
As a minor contributor, I appreciate all input. Thanks! Dinadineke ( talk) 13:29, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
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This article is full of too many individual "citation needed" tags. I'll try to clean it up later when I have time. See Wikipedia:OVERTAGGING /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Tagging_pages_for_problems#Over-tagging 2.31.178.132 ( talk) 19:13, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
Appeared on The Weakest Link Mar 2024. Percy2345 ( talk) 20:33, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
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In this TV documentary she said how (in 1974) she was in class at school when an IRA bomb was planted at a News Agency about 100yds away. Somehow the school was not evacuated and the Bomb Squad were called. However the bomb detonated (killing the officer trying to diffuse it) and the blast hit the school, and only then was she told to crouch down and later led to safety. So a lucky escape - https://www.channel5.com/show/the-blackouts-of-74-when-britain-went-dark
I've changed this back from Toyah! Toyah! Toyah! All The Hits to Toyah! Toyah! Toyah! as the latter is what's written on the spine of my copy; from the layout of the front cover, I'm not convinced that "All The Hits" is part of the title. However, toyahwillcox.com lists the title as including the tag line and I've lost the copy of Guinness British Hit Albums that I was going to check with.
If anyone is confident that I've got this wrong then please change it back, but also change the "also known as" bit in the references section so that it makes sense!
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22:52, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
I've just looked at this page for the first time. Since when was Toyah a band? Toyah is a solo artist and was since her first hit single back in 1981. All her single and album covers featured just her, all the photo sessions featured just her, every magazine referred to Toyah as 'her'. I don't know enough about her career before that - but certainly the chart and reference books describe Toyah as a female singer (not a band), she won the BRIT award as a solo female artist (otherwise the award would have been for 'band'). Even her own official website doesn't refer to Toyah's music career as a band.
She may well have had a regular backing band, but then many solo artists do. To say that "Minx" is Toyah's first album as a solo artist is ridiculous. Is this one person's attempt to rewrite history? The fact that this page has been going for over 2 years astounds me (before that - the whole career was under Toyah as an individual). And why am I the only one to notice this after all this time?
What does anyone else think?-- Tuzapicabit ( talk) 02:36, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Well, in her book "Living Out Loud", Toyah herself regularly refers to "the Band", although I havent seen anywhere where she is more specific than that. I think there has always been general recognition amongst fans that Toyah was a band and Toyah Willcox a person, but the media have often blurred this. Again, in "LIving Out Loud", Toyah states that the British Rock and Pop award she received in 1982 was for "Best female singer". Gloveman ( talk) 03:39, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Can info taken from her MySpace page be used? As it is her own page, the info is from her. It contains relevant biographical info that is not present on this article, including the fact that she does not have children, nor does she want any, and that she is a Catholic. Nietzsche 2 ( talk) 03:24, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
These sources do not ever belong in External links. I have moved the link farm from there to this talk page where they do belong. Warning: I didn't check them over, so be careful in choosing any references here. Thank you! -- Leahtwosaints ( talk) 06:44, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
There are far too many quotations and statements of trivia in this article. Clearly the work of one or more fans, it needs a decent pruning. - Sitush ( talk) 11:52, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
I agree, 4 years later. It has to be rated as one of the most difficult (and thus boring) biographies in Wikipedia. That’s a shame because Toyah’s life and career have not been boring. The amount of irrelevent minutia is mind-numbing and needs clearing out and reorganising into a cogent and readable article. Richard Avery ( talk) 15:15, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
I cleaned the article up as best I could, removing the many quotes and preserving as much fact as possible, focusing on career inflection points and removing POV language and opinion to leave at least a workable bio that other editors might like to enhance, add to, further ce and generally be able to face working on. BEst Alexandermcnabb ( talk) 07:24, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
Some mention should be given of Toyah's character Mad's song "Nine To Five" in the Music and Discography sections. It's about the earliest footage of Toyah performing music (AFAIK). It was co-written with Adam Ant and recorded with Ant and Dave Barbe, although on screen Toyah was backed by an all female band including Ant's estranged wife Carol "Eve" Mills and his subesequent girlfriend Stephanie Gluck (later Coleman) who choreographed the Prince Charming dance, appeared in both that video and Stand and Deliver and co-directed several videos in 1979-1980 (Zerox, Catrouble pt2, Tabletalk and Kings Of The Wild Frontier.)
Nine To Five was included on the Jubilee OST and was released as a single in 1981 - initially credited as an Ant/Toyah duet until legal action by Ant forced the single to be credited to Maneaters as per the 1978 OST album. The filming of Jubilee led to a falling out between Ant and Toyah particularly after Gluck, Mills and the drummer all abandoned Toyah to form a new band led by Gluck and mentored by Ant. Toyah and Ant were still not on speaking terms when both on Top Of The Pops together in 1981. 62.190.148.115 ( talk) 13:29, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
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There is reference to this name in the article, in the section about Toyah's move to London. Although the interview cited does give the name as Milligan, I can't help thinking this has been mis-transcribed and it should be Kate Nelligan, who was the lead actress in 'Tales from Vienna Woods', the Maximilian Schell stage production at the National mentioned in that part of the text, which Toyah had a minor role in. Being able to still remember seeing them in this very successful production, I would like to get this correct. Is anyone aware of an alternative source which could clear this up? Sbishop ( talk) 13:01, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
I was looking for info about the Sunday Lunch videos Toyah did with her husband Robert Fripp during the Corona lockdowns. I propose to add some info because I think these videos are encyclopedically relevant, because
* The videos were published on Youtube [1] and garnered quite some publicity, I even think they introduced Toyah and Robert to a new, maybe younger audience * The videos were fun and (while all of them covers) original * They received between 100K and 2M views per video
I have 2 questions:
1 If you think it is not relevant (or just some trivia), let me know and I won't add it 2 This applies to both Toyah and Robert. I could add the info to both of them (but that's a duplication), add it to one of them and link to the other or create a separate page that both link to.
As a minor contributor, I appreciate all input. Thanks! Dinadineke ( talk) 13:29, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
References
This article is full of too many individual "citation needed" tags. I'll try to clean it up later when I have time. See Wikipedia:OVERTAGGING /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Tagging_pages_for_problems#Over-tagging 2.31.178.132 ( talk) 19:13, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
Appeared on The Weakest Link Mar 2024. Percy2345 ( talk) 20:33, 9 March 2024 (UTC)